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Books About Bookselling: A Backward Look
A Backward Look: 50 Years of Maine Books and Bookmen Francis M. O’Brien. Portland, ME: Anthoensen Press, 1986. My first impression of...
Shawn Purcell
Sep 17, 2007
From the Editor
Feedback is usually a good thing if it is fair. Most of us engage in and are shaped by feedback in ways we don’t even realize. Evolution...
Shawn Purcell
Sep 16, 2007
The ABE Bookseller Ratings Deception
How on earth can it be that David Brass Rare Books, a well respected ABAA antiquarian book dealer in California of over 40 years...
Stuart Manley
Sep 15, 2007
The Price Guide Is Right (or Is It?)
Come on down, book dealer (with apologies to Bob Barker)! I’ve got a collection of books for you—price guides on antiques, some old...
Nancy Johnson
Sep 14, 2007
Rare Book School: A Week Among Bright Bookish Minds
In years past, aspiring book dealers learned the trade by apprenticing with experienced ones. Today, with so few “bricks and mortar”...
Ellen Firsching Brown
Sep 14, 2007
Judith Tingley of Meetinghouse Books and MARIAB
-Hi Judith. What is your life story before getting into bookselling, in one paragraph (and no cheating with a fifty page paragraph)? Hi,...
Shawn Purcell
Sep 12, 2007
A Book Dealer Visits Peru, or, How I Spent My Summer Vacation
As usual, I bought a few books to prepare myself for the journey. The first one was a rather dry, brief traveler’s history of Peru. If I...
Joe Perlman
Sep 11, 2007
Ephemeral Assays: Self Listing
When making a large haul, all kinds of things turn up in the net. Even if it’s only books, rather than loads of paper, inscriptions and...
Shawn Purcell
Sep 10, 2007
